After Cao Yi bathed and changed clothes, and everything was done, he asked the little maid in the courtyard to inform everyone one by one to have dinner together in the reception hall.

After hearing this, the girls gritted their teeth at Chu Mingxuan, saying that they must punish Chu Mingxuan well, so that he could deeply understand the fate of offending his son. At this time, news came from the concierge, saying that someone outside had sent a letter to Cao Gongzi, saying what kind of evidence it was.

As soon as Cao Yi heard it, he knew that it was sent by Ximen Ba, and then asked people to quickly collect the "evidence". Cao Yi didn't care that he was eating at this time, and directly pulled out the evidence in the letter and looked at it carefully.

Above is the contract agreement signed by Chu Mingxuan and the head of the Yangzhou branch of the Cao Gang, that is, Ximen Ba, which states that Chu Mingxuan bid 30,000 taels, asking Ximen Ba and the Cao Gang to secretly capture Cao Yi and hand it over to Chu Mingxuan for disposal, and there is even a clause indicating that if the living Cao Yi cannot be tied up, even the corpse can be used, which is already a very clear hint. There are also finger prints and personal seals of Ximen Ba and Chu Mingxuan on it.

After Cao Yi read it, he passed it to the others in front of him, including Liu Baiqing, Red Sleeves, Yu Youwei and others, who were all very angry after seeing it, and all the women said that they must report this evidence to the government and let them deal with it.

"This is now not suitable for handing over to the government because it also involves the Ximen Ba and others in the Yangzhou Branch of the Cao Gang, this evidence is now only used as a means or object to deter Chu Mingxuan, if it is really handed over to the government, then Ximen Ba and the others will also go in." Cao Yi shook his head and said.

"The Yangzhou branch of the Cao Gang where Ximen Ba is located, there are still important things to do, so I plan to report this thing to the official, oh, I forgot to say it, this Ximen Ba and the Yangzhou branch of the Cao Gang behind him are actually Mu Feichen's subordinates, because Mu Feichen is the young leader of the Cao Gang, but it was before." Cao Yi said lightly.

"Is that Mu Feichen we have here?" Redsleeves asked curiously.

"Hmm!" Cao Yi nodded, "And I still have to rely on their Cao Gang to develop and expand the Taibai Chamber of Commerce for me, so this matter will be handled like this for the time being." Cao Yi finally made a decision.

After a while, even Fei Haomiao came over to visit Cao Yi, after all, he listened to what Steward Xu said, something happened to Cao Gongzi today, he was injured, his nose and mouth were beaten and bleeding, and he told Fei Haomiao the causes and consequences of today's incident.

It doesn't take Fei Haomiao to hear that Cao Yi was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and his body and feet were lame, so he hurriedly came over to visit and condole, after all, his little junior brother was beaten under his own rule, and his nose and mouth were bleeding, if this matter reached his teacher Lu Gong, then it is estimated that he Fei Haomiao would visit his master and mother in the future, and he would really not even let the door in.

While Cao Yi was eating dinner here, Xicheng, which was very close to Yangzhou, in a room in the Xiaoyao Inn in the downtown area of Xicheng, Yuan Qing and ten Taibai secret guards gathered together, discussing something.

"Did you find any useful news today?" Yuan Qing looked at everyone and asked.

Helian Qishan was the first to speak: "Didn't I find out yesterday that some time ago, there were suddenly a lot of barbarians in the entire Xicheng?" ”

Everyone nodded, motioning for Helian Qishan to continue.

"Today I went to investigate this matter, most of the barbarians who came to Xicheng before were from Liao."

"Liao?" Lian Gu spoke, he glanced at Yun Qing, he was the person who had followed Yun Qing when he created the ink blade on the Liaoyan border before, and was later called by Yun Qing from the Liaoyan border to help set up and train the Taibai Secret Guard, of course, there were many people who belonged to the ink blade before and also came over, but the others were arranged by Yun Qing to enter the two major organizations of Dust Light and Shadow Kill, which were still under preparation.

So when Helian Qishan talked about the people of Liao, Lian Gu subconsciously asked rhetorically and glanced at Yun Qing.

"Well, and some time ago, those Liao people were still living in the Xiaoyao Inn where we live now, and then I heard that the previous gang leader of the Cao Gang suddenly disappeared, and then after the current gang leader Jing Zhe became the leader of the Cao Gang, these Liao people of more than 100 people checked out one after another...... Lian Gu continued.

"Have you asked the innkeeper where they went?" Yun Qing asked.

Lian Gu nodded and shook his head: "I asked the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper didn't know where they went, and said that it was very likely that they would return to Liao after the business was done." ”

Although there is no trade between the countries of Dayan and Liao, there are still many merchants and chambers of commerce between the two countries in private. So it's not for nothing that the shopkeeper of the Escape Inn said this. In particular, Xicheng, as the headquarters of Caoyun, is very developed in water and land transportation, so there are often people from the Western Regions, the northern barbarian Liao and the Bohai Kingdom.

However, even if these foreign caravans used to come and go frequently, the size of these caravans was generally only fifty or sixty people, like this time it was a caravan of more than a hundred people, and nearly two hundred people had never seen it before, and I had not heard of any cloth, rice, salt, and ceramics shops in the city that had done a big business recently.

Therefore, the statement that these Liao people are all businessmen is not very valid, and Lian Gu also inquired about the shopkeeper, saying that these Liao people are extremely burly, and they don't look like businessmen, but more like soldiers, because the fierce and bloodthirsty temperament is very obvious.

"If that's the case, I think I know where these Liao people have gone." Zhao Guang, who had been listening to the side, suddenly raised his hand at this time.

"Oh, tell me, where have these Liao people gone?" Yun Qing replied.

"Haven't I been hanging out with a small leader of the Cao Gang for the past two days, and I've been inviting him to eat, drink and watch plays, so I'm a little more familiar with it, and when I invited him to drink at noon today, he drank a little too much, and then complained to me, saying that the boss he was with was likely to become the new deputy leader of the Cao Gang, but now he was snatched away by two strangers."

He said that their Cao Gang was originally one and two deputy gang leaders, like the current gang leader Jing Zhe was one of the previous deputy gang leaders, and the other gang leader was called Guan Weng, and later it seemed that because he was not convinced that Jing Zhe had established himself as the gang leader, so there were quarrels and contradictions, and according to the little leader. What about this Guan Weng, in order to protect Mu Feichen, the leader of the young gang at that time, out of the city, and fought with a group of mysterious people, except for a few people who ran away with Mu Feichen, Guan Weng's family of more than a dozen people, plus the guards and miscellaneous servants counted eighty-seven people, were all slaughtered overnight. ”

"All dead?" Yun Qing's face was solemn, and he asked,

Zhao Guang nodded: "Well, all of them are dead, none of them are alive, according to the neighbors of Guan Weng's mansion, although there were occasional roars that night, but there was no big movement, and the next morning I found that all eighty-seven people in Guan Weng's mansion were killed, and none of them were spared." ”

"It seems that the person who killed Guan Weng's family is absolutely strong, so he can do it and slaughter Guan Weng's family without too much noise, otherwise there will always be one or two who escape, or even if they can't escape, they can always shout for help or something, especially in the middle of the night."

"Well, I highly suspect that the person who killed Guan Weng's family was the more than a hundred Liaoyou." Zhao Guang said his judgment, and the others all looked at him, waiting for him to say the basis for this judgment next.

"Didn't I say before that little boss that he said that the boss of his original boss might become the new deputy leader of the Cao Gang! But after Jing Zhe became the gang leader, Guan Weng died again, so the two deputy gang leaders were vacant, and everyone thought that the hall master of the headquarters had a chance to be promoted, but Jing Zhe proposed two strangers to be the gang leader, saying that these two people have great power in the north and can completely expand the existing sphere of influence and territory of the Cao Gang. The goods were transported to the area of Youzhou, the Daimyo Prefecture, and then transported to various parts of the north by land, and then exchanged for some specialties and goods from northern Xinjiang. What is said to be scarce is expensive, these things that are not available in the south, only in the north, as soon as they are shipped back to the south, it will be a shocking profit. said that with these two people as deputy gang leaders, the overall strength and financial resources of the Cao Gang will be greatly improved and developed by leaps and bounds. Zhao Guang recalled as he integrated the words of the little boss and stated them.

"What do you mean...... Those two people are among the more than 100 Liao people? Yun Qing looked at Zhao Guang and asked.

"It's absolutely inseparable, because the little leader said that the two deputy gang leaders who have just been announced, each of them has a lot of Liao guards around them, and they are strong, and when the Cao Gang Conference was held before, they also showed their strength, especially those who did not agree with the two of them to become the deputy gang leaders, and the people who basically shouted under them were all taught a hard lesson by those Liao people."

Yun Qing touched his beard and muttered to himself: "So it seems that this Cao Gang, or Jing Zhe's usurpation, still has the shadow of the Liao State behind it?" ”

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